I’ve been a teacher in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Writing Program for the past 14 years. A few weeks ago, while driving from a department meeting to teach a class, I received a text from the program ...
This technique gives multilingual students explicit instruction on how to effectively develop their ideas for each part of a ...
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating polished, grammatically correct text that meets academic standards, educators face a critical challenge: How can we teach students ...
Near the end of 2023, a popular YouTube creator known as hbomberguy released a video on plagiarism — a topic often confined to conversations in composition classrooms. The four-hour video, “Plagiarism ...
Twenty years ago, when I started my career as an ESL teacher in Houston, Texas, I remember the struggles of teaching persuasive writing to English learners. I had students who were bright, ...
While the reading and math "wars" have gotten a lot of attention in education in recent years, writing instruction has not ...
I was absolutely appalled at the anonymous AP Literature and Composition reader’s summary of his time in Salt Lake City. I was even more appalled by his tone, which was condescending, arrogant and ...
Lately when I talk with faculty members about their courses and classrooms, I often have to say something that few of them want to hear: Your undergraduates need you to teach them “studenting” skills.
For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- I don’t know what percentage of AI-generated writing you will consume today. But it’s not insignificant. That email from a colleague outlining a new protocol? Likely. The ...
Corrected: A word was misspelled in the title of the book co-authored by Magliozzi and Peterson. The correct title is AI in the Writing Workshop: Finding the Write Balance. Since ChatGPT’s release, we ...